Hello! Maybe this question has been asked many times before, but searching the archives of the last 2 years I did not find an answer. I have installed icecast2 and darkice on a PC running on Ubuntu 12.04. Streaming works fine on both other PCs, players and even Squeezebox Radio. There is only one problem: the players do not show the MP3-Tags of the songs played. Is this a property of the Icecast Server or did I miss something during installation? Thanks for any suggestion! Hubert
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Hubert Gabler wrote:> I have installed icecast2 and darkice on a PC running on Ubuntu 12.04. > Streaming works fine on both other PCs, players and even Squeezebox > Radio. There is only one problem: the players do not show the MP3-Tags > of the songs played.This is because Darkice is getting its audio from the soundcard (presumably) and thus has no idea about which songs are being played and therefore cannot pass this information on to Icecast. How are you playing your music? Perhaps it's possible for whatever you're using to send audio directly to Icecast without needing to use Darkice and send title information as well. If not, there may be other options. Geoff.
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, Hubert Gabler wrote:> My mp3-files are on the PC that runs the icecast server. I open the one I > want to "broadcast" with the VLC-player (which shows title and artist of the > song).VLC can stream direct to Icecast. I did a quick Google about this. There's lots of documentation, a lot of it quite old but may still be applicable. One can be found here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/vlc/ch015_streaming-to-icecast/ There's also some Youtube vids that I've not looked at but may be worth a look if they're newer. HTH, Geoff.